building a package on a Mac: pdflatex
On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:01, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
And note too that this is looking first for a script texi2dvi. If you have that, *it* will look for pdflatex, possibly already knowing where to look. Also note that both the usual texi2dvi and tools::texi2dvi will consult environment variables such as PDFLATEX. If you have a standard Mac TeX installation such as MacTeX, it should contain texi2dvi. So this seems to be entirely a path problem.
while it was entirely a path problem, the latest (2010) MacTex does *not* contain texi2dvi: which texi2dvi /usr/bin/texi2dvi and $:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls texi* texindy but no texi2dvi. I did ask other mactex users and they also do not have texi2dvi F
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Simon Urbanek wrote:
Federico,
both are entirely irrelevant - run
system("pdflatex --version")
in R - that is the only thing that counts. If it shows an error, then you don't have pdflatex on your PATH which would be the problem. As a side note, you are showing two separate TeX packages which may not help you to find out what breaks in your setup in general ...
Cheers,
Simon
On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
On 5 Jul 2011, at 10:44, Federico Calboli wrote:
<snip> My comment is, pdflatex *is* availiable: $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 21 Oct 2010 pdflatex -> pdftex and $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 21 Oct 2010 pdflatex -> pdftex
Before anyone asks: $ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls /usr/texbin/pdflatex /usr/texbin/pdflatex so that's not the issue. bw F -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] gmail.com
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